 | William Heard Kilpatrick - Education - 1923 - 408 pages
...includes some excursions into the unknown, and a mechanical activity hedged within a drab world. . . . "All life operates through a mechanism, and the higher...with two kinds of habit, intelligent and routine. . . . "The current dualism of mind and body, thought and action, is so rooted that we are taught (and... | |
 | Thomas H. Uzzell, Camelia Waite Uzzell, Walter B. Pitkin - Fiction - 1923 - 516 pages
...preach ' truth to life ' often achieve only an aimless splurge. " Mechanism is indispensable. . . . The artist is a masterful technician. The technique...dictate the performance. It is absurd to say that the m.echanical performer exhibits habit and that the artis5^-*-*" Tformance doesn't. We are confronted... | |
 | Thomas H. Uzzell, Camelia Waite Uzzell, Walter B. Pitkin - Fiction - 1923 - 512 pages
...preach ' truth to life ' often achieve only an aimless splurge. " .Mechanism is indispensable. . . . The artist is a masterful technician. The technique...permits the mechanism to dictate the performance. It i8 absurd to say that the mechanical performer exhibits habit and that the artistic performance doesn't.... | |
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - Psychology - 1924 - 760 pages
...indispensable. Nevertheless the difference between the artist and the mere technician is unmistakable. The artist is a masterful technician. The technique...permits the mechanism to dictate the performance. Yet the dualism of mind and body, thought and action, is so rooted that we are taught . . . that the... | |
 | Robert Bruce Raup - Behaviorism (Psychology) - 1925 - 250 pages
...and halting. Nevertheless the difference between the artist and the mere technician is unmistakable. The artist is a masterful technician. The technique...with two kinds of habit, intelligent and routine. . . . The current dualism of mind and body, thought and action, is so rooted that we are taught (and... | |
 | John Dewey - Philosophy - 1928 - 602 pages
...and halting. Nevertheless the difference between the artist and the mere technician is unmistakable. The artist is a masterful technician. The technique...prevalence of dead habits deflects life into mere elan. SOCIAL CUSTOM THE MATRIX OF INDIVIDUAL HABITS " We often fancy that institutions, social custom, collective... | |
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The artist is a masterful technician. The technique or mechanism is fused with thought and feeling. The "mechanical" performer permits the mechanism to dictate the performance. It is absurd to say that the latter exhibits habit and the former not. We... 